Introducing positive behavior for learning produces an environment with real advantages for music teaching and learning

Positive Behaviour for Learning (PBL) is an initiative of the NSW Department of Education and Training Western Sydney Region that has been progressively introduced into schools across the region from 2005. It has its origins in a United States system, with the transfer taking place following visits of George Sugai in 2004 and Tim Lewis in 2005 from the United States of America (US). At the end of March 2008, researchers from the University of Western Sydney delivered an evaluation report on the transfer of this US System into the Department of Education Western Sydney Region Schools (Mooney, et al., 2008). This paper is an extension of work conducted in that evaluation, outlining the preliminary effects of this system on students in a music classroom of one of the schools in the region. The school is referred to here as Tiber High School.